Baxter Rare Maps
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BMC 42-Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima geographice exhibita, circa 1720
- See also BMC 21. Map of the northeastern colonies in North America. It is an amalgam of Dutch and English sources, and depicts such inaccuracies as the strait cutting across Cape Cod near Eastham, a larger Lake Champlain, and several mythical lakes in New York.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 36--Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possédent sur le continent de l'Amérique septentrionale savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize provinces unies qui font: les quatres colonies de la Nouvelle Angleterre ... 1776
- Map of the British Colonies, which identifies each of the 13 Colonies by name in the title and in the map, at the outbreak of the American Revolution. Maryland is an odd shape for the time period. Includes detail in the Great Lakes region and a few places named in the Ohio Valley. Ft. Necessite is also shown. The map is very Franco-centric, limiting British claims to the regions east of the Appalachian Mountains.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 52--Province of New Hampshire, 1730
- Map of the Province of New Hampshire with note "rec'd from Col. Dunbar with his letter to the Sec'y dated at Boston 2 May 1730." Notes "Charter Division Line between the Provinces 3 miles N[orth] of the Meremack River." David Dunbar (1728–1737) was a British military officer; as Surveyor of the King's Woods he made numerous enemies in his enforcement of regulations governing the cutting of trees that could be used as ship masts. He was the leader of an attempt to establish a colony named "Georgia" in what is now the central coast of Maine, and was in 1730 commissioned as lieutenant governor of the Province of New Hampshire in an attempt to strengthen his authority. He engaged in frequent disputes with New Hampshire's Governor Jonathan Belcher. He established Fort Frederick in Maine.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 63--Nova Francia et Regiones Adiacentes, 1633
- Map of the East Coast of North America, extending from Cape Cod to Newfoundland. De Laet’s map appeared in his seminal work on America, which is widely regarded as the most important and influential treatise on the subject published in the 17th Century. The map provides the best representations of the coastline and is referred to as "one of the foundation maps of Canada" and "the first printed map to include an accurate Prince Edward Island, and the earliest depiction of a north-south oriented Lake Champlain."
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 67--Route from Fort Pownal to Quebec, 1764
- "A Draught of a Rout from Fort Pownall on Penobscot River by way of Piscataquess River, Lake Sabim, Wolf River, and the River Chaudiere, to Quebec, and back again to Fort Pownall, by Penobscot River. Taken by order of His Excellency Francis Bernard. Esq: Governor &c of His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 1764." Map of route to Quebec from Fort Pownal on the Penobscot River, based on a survey undertaken by Joseph Chadwick during 1764.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 68A--Province Massachusetts Bay Penobscot Dominions of Great Britain Possession Confirm'd by Thos. Pownall Govr.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 70--Partie orientale du Canada, avec la Nouvelle Angleterre, l'Acadie, et la Terre-Neuve par le S. D'Anville, 1776
- Map of northeastern Canada, New York and New England based upon D'Anville's map of 1746.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 75--Nuova ed esatta Carta Della America Ricavata dale Mappe, e carte piu approvate, 1763
- Map of North and South America engraved by Andrea Scacciati and published in Il Gazzettiere Americano by Marco Coltellini, Livorno, 1763. The atlas is the first Italian translation of "The American Gazetteer" published in 1762. The maps accompanying the atlas are derived from the French cartographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin. The works bear the signatures of Veremondo Rossi, Andrea Scacciati, Giuseppe Maria Terreni and also Violante Vanni, a rare case of Italian women's engagement in the cartographic field.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 76--Carta Rappresentante i Cinque Laghi del Canada, 1763
- This map was engraved by Andrea Scacciati and Giuseppe Pazzi for Il Gazzettiere Americano, published in Livorno in 1763. The map depicts all five of the Great Lakes although Lake Superior is only partially represented. It extends north and south beyond Lake Superior and Fort Duquesne, west to Green Bay, and east to include parts of New Jersey. The map identifies geographical features, various rivers, trading post, and fortifications. American Indian tribes are identified with Italianized names such as the “Irocchesi” and “Algonquini.” Niagara Falls is identified.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 79A--Plan de la Ville de Quebec, circa 1764
- Plan of the city of Quebec circa 1764. Cartographer is unknown but the map is based upon Jacques Bellin's map of the same period.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps